On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:15, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
It must be opt-in.
1. May-be you should consider to talk to RH legal.
In many parts of this world opt-out is ILLEGAL.
2. It should be is a matter of fairness to make it opt-in.
3. In many parts of this world SPY-WARE like yours is a very hot
political topic. You are at risk at exposing Fedora to be subjects to
such flames. Even Microsoft has learned their lessons and made
"registration opt-in", now you are committing the same FAULT.
Ralf,
it is not registration, it is not spy ware. it is a voluntary hardware
profile. there is no way to know that a profile is yours unless you give me
your unique hardware id that is generated on your system at package install
time. This will help fedora in many ways.
it is opt-in you can choose to install or not install smolt. you can choose
to sumbit a profile at any time or you can chose to never submit a profile.
Right now what we would like to do is have at firstboot time a screen where
the user can say yes send my hardware profile in. nothing more nothing
less.
Feel free to look at the code. there is no package list sent, no ip, no
anything that can be associated to you without you giving me your id.
Say you are having a weird X issue you could give your ID to the x team and
they can look at your profile and try to replicate it to determine the bug,
fix, and possibly test it.
from
http://publictest4.fedora.redhat.com/raw
UUID cc4dfded-42d8-489d-af68-c2ff14438d1c
OS Aurora SPARC Linux release 2.90 (Aurora Corona)
platform sparc64
bogomips 2001.0
systemMemory 16229
systemSwap 3996
CPUVendor sun4v - ultrasparc t1 (niagara)
numCPUs 32
CPUSpeed 1000.0
language en_US.UTF-8
defaultRunlevel 3
vendor sun
system Sun Fire(TM) T1000
Bus Class Driver Description
pci OTHER unknown Broadcom|EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge
pci OTHER tg3 Broadcom Corporation|NetXtreme BCM5714 Gigabit Ethernet
MISC NETWORK unknown Networking Interface
pci OTHER tg3 Broadcom Corporation|NetXtreme BCM5714 Gigabit Ethernet
MISC NETWORK unknown Networking Interface
pci OTHER unknown Broadcom|HT1000 PCI/PCI-X bridge
pci OTHER tg3 Broadcom Corporation|NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
MISC NETWORK unknown Networking Interface
pci OTHER tg3 Broadcom Corporation|NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
MISC NETWORK unknown Networking Interface
pci SCSI mptsas LSI Logic / Symbios Logic|SAS1064 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS
scsi HD unknown ATA|ST3320620AS
thats one of my systems that is all that gets sent.
And again to re-iterate it is entirely voluntary "you choose" to submit or not
your profile
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